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I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here. www.32auctions.com/organization...

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):

submitted 42 days ago • 114 comments

Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I have had a mild knee injury bothering me for the last week - on the mend. Extra grateful for my ebike - in the top power assist level it's quite manageable for me to get where I need to

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

#Checkmate

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Libraries buy books; authors receive royalties every time a book is sold. Authors aren't missing out on compensation. Libraries don't cheat authors. I'm an author. Libraries carry my books. I love libraries.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 422 days ago • 82 comments

At first glance, this reads like a series of conspiracy theories, until you realize every single one of these things is actually happening & this batshit insanity is reality. For YEARS, we librarians have been gaslit & told, “bans aren’t bans if you can still buy it on Amazon”. Well, guess what.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.

submitted 92 days ago • 126 comments

Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I don't know about?

submitted 92 days ago • 69 comments

The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Embrace graphic novels 1/ ?

submitted 96 days ago • 24 comments

We literally have science fiction on why this is a bad idea.

submitted 98 days ago • 487 comments

Finally reading Ink & Sigil, and I must give a shout out to @kevinhearne.bsky.social for this extremely spot-on snippet about billionaires.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.

submitted 105 days ago • 19 comments

You know what EVs have, just like conventional cars?

submitted 104 days ago • 11 comments

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found. The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 105 days ago • 116 comments

"'I doubt that most library users of Hoopla are aware that some titles may be AI generated or unedited and of dubious quality,' Blackwell said. 'They may assume that if the library is offering the information, it can be trusted. That is a problem.'"

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

This list includes "female" and "women" but not "male" or "men."

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 105 days ago • 1313 comments

The fash have been emboldened by demagogues and a misplaced sense of invincibility but we will win this war if we stand together!

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

I just want to beat the drum again that no other public institution grants civic respect and standing to kids quite like the public library, and that eroding or destroying it is a direct attack on a democratic ideal according to which even the powerless and voiceless have a place among us. 📚

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18. bookriot.com/community-li...

submitted 120 days ago • 7 comments

I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

submitted 108 days ago • 25 comments

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices."

submitted 109 days ago • 13 comments

If you're wondering if you've seen me before, it's probably this one:

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

With several of the larger independent publishers in Australia now part of the major international publishing houses...will others be able to step up and take the risks that independent publishing can?

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

One thing history has shown is that when you try to silence the 🏳️‍🌈 community, they get a lot louder. If they were hoping for gay people to disappear, they are in for a world of hurt feefees.

submitted 119 days ago • 16 comments

Uncomfortably but necessary reading...

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

First bike ride of the year was a scenic one. I hope there are more to come. Set my reading goal at a very attainable 50 books. I also aim to try new recipes

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Not bad. Here's to even more cycling and e-biking next year

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

truth

submitted 153 days ago • 1 comment

my hottest take is that i would count some video games as "reading". they're just interactive graphic novels 📚

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

(avowedly) fake voices, (almost certainly) fake authors, (very likely) fake books showing up on Overdrive. Coooollll 📚

submitted 154 days ago • 11 comments

Children do not “belong to parents”. Children are not property. They are people with rights and parents and guardians are responsible for upholding those rights

submitted 155 days ago • 13 comments

This is amazing.

submitted 157 days ago • 28 comments

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

submitted 160 days ago • 224 comments

Why are cycling rates so low in Australia? And if we want more people to have the choice of active transport options, what can we do? As @mhharrington.bsky.social explains, the benefits include cleaner and less congested cities, and happier and healthier people. #auspol

submitted 160 days ago • 32 comments

I love picking books for the staff favourites display, and it's such a hit with customers looking for something to read over the holidays 😄

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 12

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 11

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 10

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

Seattle’s central library is magnificent. It’s our civic cathedral...our winter garden...our town square.

submitted 165 days ago • 15 comments